The Media Drop

The Boston Globe’s Robert Gavin writes about the newspaper’s announcement that Mary Jacobus would be taking on the role of president and general manager at the daily, taking on the role being vacated by Richard Daniels, who is moving elsewhere within the Boston Globe Media organization.

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Like him or not, James Wolcott does ring the bell very well sometimes, which is why he’s in my RSS reader. This week, he’s calling out journalists for their continued cracking on bloggers for their “work habits” when, as it turns out, there are plenty of journalists who aren’t exactly on the up and up […]

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The Baltimore Sun’s Nick Madigan writes about the countersuit filed against Sinclair Broadcasting by a former employee, Jonathan Leiberman, who took offense to the much-ballyhooed documentary about Senator John Kerry that the television station ownership company was running across its network before the 2004 Presidential Election. Leiberman was tossed after he refused to take part […]

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Wanna bet that broadband is so ubiquitous that the big businesses are starting to see how it can work for them? Well, it looks like CBS has decided to offer up its March Madness action for the NCAA basketball tournament, online, for nada. Well, not every game, but the out-of-market action. As the Hollywood Reporter […]

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I’m a full believer that there should be a “My Rating” column within iTunes for when you’re viewing other people’s music on a subnet, that compiles the latest ratings that anyone else who has listened to the music gives for a song. Kind of like an internal rating system, offering the ratings of multiple people, […]

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A couple days ago, Jeff Jarvis was buggin’ about advertisements that Infinity-owned WFAN was putting up all over the tri-state area for the “Imus in the Morning” program. I’ve seen these billboards as far away as Independence Township, out near Buttzville, NJ, and in the same city that I live in outside of NYC. Jeff’s […]

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